Socialization in Today’s Society
Andrea Gibson
South University Online

Families have changed greatly over the past 60 years, and they continue to become more diverse. Families are strong, they teach about right and wrong. Families also teach how to communicate and deal with your problems. Dealing with families you can be faced with problems with diverse families, marriages, and the rights for women. Having strong socialization and family value, can better prepare you for the future.

Family can be considered as the most important agent of socialization because of the foundation of family and what it stands for. Family teaches you how to communicate and how to better deal with your feelings. Having a mother and father communicate with each other is a good example to a child on how socialization starts. Family is also a good example because there are many different personalities in that house. Each teaches you how to deal with a person that is nothing like you. So family is the start on how a child to socialize with the world.

The dramatic change to American families is the economy and technology. Money issues are going every day. Forcing both parents to have to work a full day of work, and spend less time with their children. Technology also plays a big role in this change. When technology is present in today’s communities it requires less interaction with people and more with the technology. Back in the days there was less technology and more family time. It taught people how to deal with one another. Now a days you just pick up the phone, or threw a text to communicate with the person. Technology is not all bad it just don’t teach people how to deal with people and their feelings.

Differences between marriages and the family life is that a marriage may have a mother and a father, and in a family life it may just be a parent and some kids. In a marriage usually it’s more of a support system like having more money, and having both parents raising...

...Criminology
There are several ways to approach the causes of crime. Many theories in Criminology address crime as why and who commit these crimes. Control Theory looks at why people don’t commit crime, and what self control they possess to avoid criminal behavior opposed to those who do commit crimes. This theory focuses primarily on external factors and the processes of how they become effective in criminal behavior. Strain theory, another approach to understand crime focuses on the struggle to obtain the American Dream, and how it is obtained by different types of people. Both concepts look at the environment that individuals are raised in, and how that can impact their tendencies to be drawn to criminal behavior.
A 17 year old male raised in a wealthy suburban neighborhood, with wealthy parents is, according to control theory, going to be less likely to turn to crime. There is little struggle in that environment that he is raised therefore his self control against crime is stronger because criminal behavior is not seen as a necessity. In the case of the 17 year old male raised in a poor neighborhood, from a low income family, who also struggles in school can have a completely different impact on his control against criminal behavior. Control theory suggests that those who commit these crimes will create justification for their actions. The boy who stole the wallet from another student may feel that the student did not need that...

...Task 1 Respond to the questions on the comparative texts on “beggars” using the perspectives of left/right realism (approx. 500) 1.1, 2.1
Q1) Marsland’s article on “how to sweep these beggars from our streets” fits the right realist approach by assuming that people have chosen to be beggars of their own ‘free will’. He shows this by saying that capitalism and poverty is not the cause of them going begging he refers to them as an ‘intolerable blot’ as he believes them to as being a nuisance and are nothing more than parasites. He says “their possessive occupation like locusts swarming on the harvest”. He argues that begging should be shamed out of existence but blames the welfare as causing the escalation in begging. As he argues that they do not possess any morals and would advocate the return of the work house as he seems to favour Victorian standards and could also be likened to ‘John Major’s’ ‘back to basics’ speech which took place a year earlier.( www.guardian.co.uk,politics,1993) It could also be said that Marsland believes the beggars to be lacking in intelligence as Wilson and Hernnstein (1985) while looking at circumstances of black Latin Americans were not caused by discrimination but the ‘fact’ that they were born less intelligent. Herrnstein and Murray (1985) extended on this by linking low intelligence with criminality. (Joyce, P. (2006) Criminal justice: an introduction to crime and the criminal justice system)
Marsland also fits into the right...

...﻿Criminology Assignment 1
Task 1: How would you define criminology?
We hear about crime in everyday life, read about it in newspapers, and watch it on the news. Crime is portrayed in several drama series on television and movies and is the subject of many conversations, whether it be a case involving a celebrity or a local or global tragedy. However for something that is such an everyday occurrence, criminology is not quite so easy to define as so may think. Criminology is a social science, the main aim is to analyse and research crime on both an individual and society basis. Criminology hopes to understand criminal behaviour and investigate the reasons behind why people commit crime. It is also important to look at ways in which crime can be reduced, how programmes, laws and policies may help to decrease or even stamp out crime. Criminology on a whole is made up of several elements such as law, sociology, biology and psychology. Criminology has since the 1920’s been associated with sociology; there are some connections also between biological and psychological theories of crime and this association carries on today.
I would describe criminology as the process of preventing, understanding and controlling crime. This includes the measurement, analysis and detection of crime. Criminology also covers foreseeing and predicting criminal...

...﻿Critically discuss the contention that criminology is “the study of the causes of crime”.
Nowadays, it is easy to find crime news in the newspaper. The number of crime increase year by year because of the complexity of society. Crime is a contest word. There are various definitions in different perspective such as Crime is the behavior prohibited by the criminal code in legal perspective (Walklate, 2011). Early criminologists aimed to develop more rational and efficient ways of dealing with crime which is called “criminological project” (Croall, 2011). Criminology is to investigate the cause of crime. Therefore, I agree with the contention in the high extent of degree. However, criminology is a diverse discipline characterized by comparing theoretical perspectives which means it is multidisciplinary (Walklate, 2007; Walklate, 2011). It involves a lot of disciplinary such as psychology, politics, economic, sociology and so on. Therefore, there is wide study for the criminologists to investigate crime. In this essay, I would like to discuss four main subjects that we need to study in criminology: analyses the cause of crime, crime prevention, explore the media presentation of crime and understand the formation and application of law (Walklate, 2011).
In the early stage, criminology could be classified into two types: Classical criminology and Positivist criminology...

...Part I: Background Research on Criminology
Ashlee Fiataugaluia
CRJS 131
Criminology
Westwood College
9/2/12
Criminology is a term used for the study of criminal behavior including factors and causes of crime. This study also deals with the social impact of any crime of the criminal itself and on the victim and his or her family. There are two major classifications in this discipline of social science. First is classicistic approach while the other is known as positivist approach of criminal study. The positivist approach of criminology is referred to the state in which a person loses its mental control and will commit a crime. In this discipline the factors of inner and outer circumstances are believed to be responsible for losing control from mind. On the other hand the classicistic approach argues with the factors suggested by positivist. According to this discipline every person has the ability to make a decision under any circumstances this is not to be believed that a person has loses his decision making ability.
To understand criminal justice, it is necessary to understand crime. Most policy-making in criminal justice is based on criminological theory, whether the people making those policies know it or not. In fact, most of the failed policies (what doesn't work) in criminal justice are due to misinterpretation, partial implementation, or ignorance of criminological theory. Much time and money...

...﻿CHAPTER I
The Problem and its Background
Introduction
For many young people today, traditional patterns guiding the relationships and transitions between family, school and work are being challenged. Social relations that ensure a smooth process of socialization are collapsing; lifestyle trajectories are becoming more varied and less predictable. The restricting of the labour market, the extension of the maturity gap and arguably, the more limited opportunities to become an independent adult are all changes influencing relationships with friends and family. it is not only developed countries that are facing this situation; in developing countries as well there are new pressures on young people undergoing the transition from childhood to independence. Youth nowadays, regardless of gender, social origin or country of residence, are subject to individual risks but are also being presented with new individual opportunities-some beneficial and some potentially harmful. Quite often, advantage is being taken of illegal opportunities as young people commit various offences, become addicted to drugs, use violence against their peers.
Juveniles are young people who are regarded as immature or one whose mental as well as emotional faculties are not fully responsibility of their actions.
In legal points, the term juvenile is a person subject to juvenile court proceedings because of a statutorily defined event or condition caused by or affecting that person and was alleged to...

...discussing the main strengths and weaknesses of official crime statistics and victimization surveys. I have done tremendous research to back up my work, I have also used famous criminologists and other bodies who understand criminalization to help re-enforce my points.
Most experts and successful authors, such as Tim Newburn, Brent E. Turvey and Clive Coleman have attempted, through their literature to show how crime has evolved and how surveys have influenced the public’s views about it.
The first ever national crime statistics were published in France, 1827. Adolphe Quetelet, a scholar and previous astronomer was the first individual to take a serious approach and interest in criminal statistics. He then went on to become a leading body in criminology and social sciences for his work.
Official crime statistics are placed under the ideology of crime rates in the UK and Wales. Numbers that the BCS, police and other law aboding bodies can gather together from the public, their research and other sources to help give the most accurate rate of crime they can.
Victimisation surveys are generally random samples of the population asked whether they have been a victim to crime within a specific period of time. The reasons why these two different types of surveys must be taken are so that crime statistics can attempt to be more solid, although the argument is always made that there will never be an accurate percentage of crime and I will also be touching on...